Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an afterlife of some sort, but not a 'before-life?' Why are there so many versions of Heaven, Paradise and The Great Beyond, but almost none about The Great Before?

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Quote from: General Omar Bradley, in a speech in Boston, Massachusetts, November 10, 1948

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without concience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Quote from: Noam Chomsky, in a television interview, April 6, 1978

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Quote from: John Foster Dulles, [i]War or Peace[/i] (1950)

Natural science has outstripped moral and political science. That is too bad; but it is a fact, and the fact does not disappear because we close our eyes to it.

Quote from: Albert Einstein, in a letter to a minister in Brooklyn, N.Y., November 20, 1950

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Quote from: Martin Luther King, Jr., [i]Strength to Love[/i] (1963)

The means by which we live has outstripped the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

It is time that science, having destroyed the religious basis for morality, accepted the obligation to provide a new and rational basis for human behavior - a code of ethics concerned with man's needs on earth, not his rewards in heaven.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

Quote from: Adlai Stevenson, in a speech in Hartford Connecticut, September 18, 1952

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

Quote from: Leo Tolstoy, What is Art? (1898)

[Science]...gives us no answer to our question, what shall we do and how shall we live?

Quote from: Claude de Chauvigny

All I ask of Thee, Lord; is to be a drinker and a fornicator; an unbeliever and a sodomite; and then to die.

Quote from: Ingibjörg Unnur Sigmundsdóttir

Unbeliever

People say god is almightyand god is greatbut I know he’s just a fake.Don’t live in a liebecause you are afraid to diebut pull your self togeteherand when it’s your timeyou will say goodbye, forever

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"Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - his strength, his possibilities, his reason."Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut, in The Seattle Daily Ti